Altoona Baboona's auntie is lonely in North Saskatoona. So Altoona and her friends board their trusty balloon and fly up for a visit. The North is cold and snowy, and poor Auntie yearns for someplace warm. As the foursome trek, ski, ice fish, sled-dog, and float, do they notice the change in climate? Children will love 'getting' the joke on Altoona, long before she figures it out herself. Bynum's playful illustrations, done in friendly watercolors, pulls readers into Altoona's whimsical world. Lots of fun wordplay, and a text that is just the right length for younger children, complete the perfect package of a picturebook!

This is a light and fun book that I enjoy reading as much as our three year old enjoys hearing it. As he says....Altoona Baboona sticks in our head long after we read it.

Not only did my children thoroughly enjoy Altoona Baboona, but as a mom, I was delighted to find a book that appeals again and again, with a lighthearted text that flows from beginning to end with adventure and humor. Altoona is a character you can fall in love with, and Bynum carried this off with an adventure per page...exactly what a four year old finds irresistable in a book. Definitely a "Read it again!" story.

Anne Louise Polston Kentwood, Michigan

My sister and I earned book bucks this summer and after we read a book we have to write about it. Ok this book is not for me because I'm too big but its for my sister Maya. Right now its her favorite book because she loves monkeys and she is three and she can't write this. She wants a balloon like Altoona and she wants a backpack like shes got because she wants to go to school. She has 17 monkeys in her room and she has four gorillas and two baboons from the zoo gift shop my mom bought. So she is a big monkey lover! Maya likes that Altoona got friends in the end of the book and did not come home alone. That is the best part. The other best part is the pictures because they remind us of the ocean and our grandpas house in Hawaii. When we visited him Maya took Altoona on the plane with her. I wish that lady would write another monkey book because my sister would spend her book bucks on it too.

My name is Chaina and I'm eleven years old. My mom works with primates and we have a real Discondel monkey that looks like Altoona.

Thank you for making this book Love Maya and Chaina